Word: gunfighting
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...accords, which were negotiated under a dovish government. He immediately delivered on his vow, sending his troops, backed by tanks, into West Bank towns to arrest 50 suspected militants. For good measure, Israeli fighter planes and helicopter gunships blasted buildings belonging to Arafat's various security forces. In a gunfight near Nablus, Israeli troops killed six Palestinian policemen...
...burly Ta'amra ran over, grabbed the P.F.L.P. youth and began to beat him in the marketplace. Within minutes, a gang of P.F.L.P. supporters arrived and a fistfight broke out. Some of the brawlers brandished guns. Later, people who were there said it was a miracle nobody started a gunfight. But Kamel Hemeid, local chief of Arafat's Fatah Party, dismisses the confrontation: "One guy got beaten up. That's a small problem." Hemeid is a Ta'amra...
...about an earlier American precedent? Is the OK Corral available? It might be satisfying to see if the teams of lawyers now assembled in $2,000 suits in courtrooms all over Florida would strap on hoglegs like Doc Holliday to back their boy in a dawn gunfight. The man who emerges from the smoke gets to kiss the girl and become president...
...Benicio Del Toro). They've kidnapped a young woman (Juliette Lewis) pregnant with a baby she is carrying for the sleazy rich man who employs Caan as enforcer. Got it? McQuarrie, who managed suspense quite smartly in his script for The Usual Suspects, here devises a two-hour gunfight interrupted by questions of paternity. But he's not so hot as a director, so what aims at being terrifying is just loud and goofy...
...work and not half as clever as he thinks he is. He looks like a young Robert Redford (the movie makes a nice satirical reference to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), but his genial self-regard--assailed by amusing self-doubt when he actually gets into a classic gunfight--is all his own. He's a terrific sidekick to Chan's funny, earnest, often victimized righteousness. This kid could be a star...